Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Pan South African Language Board
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
  
Similar To
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Xhosa Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
Sawubona
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
Ngiyabonga
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
unjani
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
okuhle ebusuku
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
okuhle kusihlwa
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
okuhle ntambama
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
okuhle ekuseni
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Ngiyacela
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Ngiyaxolisa
  
Bye
وداعا
  
bye
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
Ngiyakuthanda wena
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
Uxolo
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Qwabe
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Gabon, South Africa
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Georgia, South Africa
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Ndebele
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
30.00 million
  
36
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
12.00 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
isiZulu
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Isizulu, Zunda
  
French Name
arabe
  
zoulou
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Zulu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Zulu people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
19
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Beatu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
urban Zulu
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Deep Zulu
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
zu
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
zul
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
zul
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
zul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
zulu1248
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
99-AUT-fg
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available